Ondoy opens new market for Davao vegetables
DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) ? The onset of typhoons in Metro Manila, which choked up major roads from surrounding provinces, had opened a market for Davao?s vegetables. Read on
Against their will, villagers in Baganga set up a barangay defense outpost
BAGANGA, DAVAO ORIENTAL (davaotoday.com)? Even before they could open it, villagers in Baganga town of Davao Oriental are already complaining about the 24-hour shift that running the Barangay Defense System outpost will entail. ?It will disrupt our farming activities,? one villager complained to a fact-finding and medical mission team that entered the area on October 21 to 23. ?BDS members don?t have salaries. What will our family eat?? Read on
Government’s counterinsurgency campaign drives Mindanao lumads homeless
By CHERYLL FIEL The image of a soldier shooting a villager clambering upon the back of an open truck is still fresh in the minds of the Manobos when they left their homes in Barangay Diatagon in Lianga, Surigao del Sur in July this year.
Coming Home
By CHERYLL FIEL After one month and 13 days at the evacuation camp, the Manobo evacuees finally went home to Lianga on August 30. Aboard a convoy of 40 trucks to barangay Diatagon, the lumads left the grounds of the Diocese of Tandag that served as their evacuation camp. But barely a month after coming home, the soldiers are back again, recruiting them to the Task Force Gantangan, a paramilitary group to fight the government?s war against the insurgents.
Soldiers hold a fact finding team for three hours in Talaingod
By CHERYLL FIEL Twenty members of lumad support groups, including a Davao Today reporter, went inside Talaingod?s sitio Dulyan in barangay Palma Gil to verify reports that soldiers have been occupying some houses in the village, a violation of the International Humanitarian Law that bans soldiers from civilian areas.
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 242
- 243
- 244
- 245
- 246
- 247
- 248
- …
- 697
- Go to the next page